Effect of ultrasonic treatment on damage relieving of porous media

Sun, Ren; Liang, Chunhong; Liu, Jinwei; Lin, L.; Xiong, Qiyong; Wu, Shigui

doi:10.1109/iceceng.2011.6057168

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“…Under such scenario, ultrasonic-based EOR may be a good alternative since the energy it induces is not heavily altered during its propagation into the oil-water mixture (since oil and water phases have very close acoustic impedance) and thus can reduce the viscosity of heavy oil resulting in an improvement of its recovery [5]. The other advantage of ultrasonic-based EOR over conventional EOR techniques is that they do not require to inject chemical solvents such as acids and that they can be deployed while the oil production is in operation [6,7]. In addition, they allow precise positioning of wellbore stimulation and can be employed for any interval of interest.…”

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An extended model for ultrasonic-based enhanced oil recovery with experimental validation

Mohsin¹,

Meribout²

2015

Ultrasonics Sonochemistry

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This paper suggests a new ultrasonic-based enhanced oil recovery (EOR) model for application in oil field reservoirs. The model is modular and consists of an acoustic module and a heat transfer module, where the heat distribution is updated when the temperature rise exceeds 1 °C. The model also considers the main EOR parameters which includes both the geophysical (i.e., porosity, permeability, temperature rise, and fluid viscosity) and acoustical (e.g., acoustic penetration and pressure distribution in various fluids and mediums) properties of the wells. Extended experiments were performed using powerful ultrasonic waves which were applied for different kind of oils & oil saturated core samples. The corresponding results showed a good matching with those obtained from simulations, validating the suggested model to some extent. Hence, a good recovery rate of around 88.2% of original oil in place (OOIP) was obtained after 30 min of continuous generation of ultrasonic waves. This leads to consider the ultrasonic-based EOR as another tangible solution for EOR. This claim is supported further by considering several injection wells where the simulation results indicate that with four (4) injection wells; the recovery rate may increase up-to 96.7% of OOIP. This leads to claim the high potential of ultrasonic-based EOR as compared to the conventional methods. Following this study, the paper also proposes a large scale ultrasonic-based EOR hardware system for installation in oil fields.

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An extended model for ultrasonic-based enhanced oil recovery with experimental validation

Mohsin¹,

Meribout²

2015

Ultrasonics Sonochemistry

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Conventional and electrical EOR review: the development trend of ultrasonic application in EOR

Shafiai

Gohari

2020

J Petrol Explor Prod Technol

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A small portion of oil can be extracted during primary and secondary stages of oil production, and significant quantities of oil remain in reservoirs. Enhanced oil recovery methods are used to extract the trapped oil with high viscosity in reservoirs and improve the efficiency of the production wells. Ultrasonic-based enhanced oil recovery method has become of considerable interest to researchers in recent years. This paper mainly presents the in-depth literature review of ultrasonic wave to investigate its application development trend in enhanced oil recovery. Besides, it also presents an overview of conventional enhanced oil recovery techniques such as chemical, gas, and thermal methods and nonconventional techniques such as electromagnetic and microwave heating. The results exhibit an increasing implementation of the ultrasonic waves for oil recovery since it is an inexpensive and ecologically sound method, can be applied in any type of reservoir, protects the well against damage, prevents heat loss, and enables stimulation freely.

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Pickering nanoemulsions and their mechanisms in enhancing oil recovery: A comprehensive review

Adil

Onaizi

2022

Fuel

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Effect of ultrasonic treatment on damage relieving of porous media

Cited by 4 publications

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An extended model for ultrasonic-based enhanced oil recovery with experimental validation

An extended model for ultrasonic-based enhanced oil recovery with experimental validation

Conventional and electrical EOR review: the development trend of ultrasonic application in EOR

Pickering nanoemulsions and their mechanisms in enhancing oil recovery: A comprehensive review

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